To continue: Violence against NATO troops in Pakistan. In the sixth such attack in the past week, gunmen fired at NATO tanks carrying fuel, setting aflame about twenty vehicles and killing at least one person. The Taliban has taken responsibility for this and two other attacks since September 30th.

To go to jail for life: Faisal Shahzad, who attempted to set off a bomb in Times Square in May. The Federal District judge presiding over the trial, Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, took issue with Shahzad’s unapologetic view of himself as a Muslim warrior, and told him, following the sentencing, “I do hope that you will spend some of the time in prison thinking carefully about whether the Koran wants you to kill lots of people.”

To please Jimmy Carter: Plans to re-install solar panels in the White House by this spring. The panels that President Carter installed thirty-one years ago were removed by President Reagan in 1986.